I really love that latest design! Very original and fun to think of what you could do with all those buttons! Sound boards would be awesome for annoying your friends with various clips from movies and whatnot. Here are some other important block types to consider:
LED spotlight
Speaker
Headphone Jack
Volume control
Air Horn
Mace/Pepper spray (can’t beat’em? Spray’em!)
Fan to cool your crotch
Beverage dispenser
Paintball gun
Tissue dispenser (for handing to your opponents after you crush them)
Candy dispenser
I have to be honest, as much as I love some of the DIY case kits that have come out over the last few years, I am totally serious when I say that I want one of these.
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Same can be said about Laser cutters and CNC machines.
Water jet is the only machine added cutting machine that does not heat up the material you are cutting and thus do not create any distortion or warping due to thermal expansion.
Its also the US military’s preferred cutting tool for custom - made vehicle parts including some types of armor.
Water Jet also allows multiple pieces of flat stock to be all cut at the same time.
You would obviously need options for 24mm and 30mm button holes but you could also make custom aluminum etched or cut blocks or plugs. I dont know how much it would raise the cost to have a few rows of thread tapped into the inside of the button hole but you could make screw in button caps.
Good ideas. There is definitely a lot of thinking to be done about this. I want to get feedback from people on what they’d like to see.
Yeah, but I’m almost thinking it should be a separate thing on the bottom that is just a standard part of the design, so that any one of these can snap into a cab right away. Think of an ipod docking station. There could still be separate options for other connector types though obviously.
The cost per minute is definitely higher than our milling machines, but the time to make one of those plates would be so low that the material would probably cost more than the waterjet time. I’ll have to check on Tuesday because I don’t know what a sheet like that would cost. We could do almost any material though.
Having some problems with these 1/4" thick top and bottom plates. Because they’re so thin, they vibrate as the cutter moves over them, which gives them a weird finish. If I can’t get it dialed in tomorrow I’ll just move on to the other parts, which I know won’t give me any trouble because they’re thicker and more rigid. Since this is just a prototype I’m not too worried, but I wouldn’t let a retail piece leave the shop looking like this. I’ve highlighted the areas I’m talking about in the pictures.
Im interested in getting a custom plate for my Hori VX with the stick to button spacing of the Kai version and the last two buttons changed to 24mm and moved to a triangle pattern next to the start button like the pic below.
Sorry I disappeared for a couple weeks, got super busy at work. I still plan to finish that modular stick soon, but I also had another idea that I won’t spoil too much, but that I’m really excited about. Will post picture of concept once I get this first one finished. Only problem is it will definitely be a niche product.
It would definitely polish out, and it’s something I’d like to try, but I was actually thinking of trying this kind of brushed look first, since it’s so easy to do. After I take pictures and everything I can take the same piece and just polish it because these little scratches are very shallow. Ultimately, if I were to get all of this stuff set up and professional-like, there would just be a checkbox for either milled, polished, brushed, annodized, gold-plated, etc.
I can do basically any length/width/thickness and hole pattern as long as I have the info. If you guys have numbers and a desired material, just PM me and I’ll let you know if we can do it. If you don’t have numbers then I’ll have to either buy one that I can measure or somebody will have to lend me one.
Just a side note, here are some more of my coworker’s shift knobs ready to be engraved. Try to picture them as balltops.
Additionally, here is a shaft that we had to do some welding on. The welding obviously changed the color a bit, which was totally unintentional, but looks cool. Maybe could work as a stick?
Those knobs would look really nice after a few minutes with some steel wool or a wire brush. A nice, non-directional polish on 'em. Like on a brake rotor.
If I wanted to combine 2 TE-S arcade sticks to make a 2-player set-up, do you think you be able to make a bracket of some kind with about a 6 inch spacer in between the arcade sticks that would allow both sticks to be easily installed and removed? I see that you are thinking about a cab with quick release arcade sticks so it doesn’t seem like a very distant idea. I’m thinking of something like a docking station for two TE-S’s.
Do you mean the kit that MadCatz sales to connect them together? If so, I’m aware but I’m thinking something a little more substantial and for 2 TE-S sticks.
